Maurice Sunderland Architecture, Inc. v. Simon

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “A trial judge may not be an advocate for a party, *** but must take the case as the parties have presented it.”
• no abuse of discretion where request for continuance based on the wife’s illness and supported by a doctor’s note was denied; the motion was filed six days before trial, and the case had been continued several times
• “The purpose of a notice of appeal is not to specify the exact points to be relied upon for reversal, but simply to inform a party who has received a favorable judgment that the opposing party desires review of the case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).